India cricket Discussion and predictions [self-mod]

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Mentioned earlier about BCCI doing an excellent job on his workload management. They don't throw him in white ball cricket and he only plays when ICC tournaments is near. It happened for last 2 t-20 and same in ODI.

Having said that, BCCI seriously need to find some seam bowlers for a long run. Can't be dependent on Bumrah's availablity all the time.

I watched a recent cricket podcast that included Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh. Michael Vaughan asked them regarding modern workload management, and both of them laughed and criticized those policies, claiming fast bowlers need to bowl continuously to maintain true match rhythm. I have heard these exact sentiments from Kapil Dev, Michael Holding, and Wasim Akram.

I mentioned the above simply because I am not sure whether this workload management is helping Bumrah or any bowler for that matter. The majority of rested bowlers will suffer from stress fractures and side strains because they take too much rest, which creates the opposite effect. Bumrah is the best bowler we have ever produced, and I won't be surprised if he hangs up his boots in the next two years.

That's true and they were correct but at the same time, every generation think that they were tough and new generation is soft

In earlier times, team's yearly schedule used to be light and in those times they had plenty of time for recovery but that's not the case in modern time if you 3 format players and it's not restricted to just bowling your quota of overs but constant travelling throughout the year because nowadays schedule is jam packed, especially for team like India as their tours and matches bring money.

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In earlier times, team's yearly schedule used to be light and in those times they had plenty of time for recovery but that's not the case in modern time if you 3 format players and it's not restricted to just bowling your quota of overs but constant travelling throughout the year because nowadays schedule is jam packed, especially for team like India as their tours and matches bring money.

This is what they fail to consider when they compare eras. Rhythm is important for a seam bowler but they can't bowl 500 overs a year and still maintain full potential throughout the year when the fans are over 1.5 billions are counting on them, the pressure is even higher than ever before. Injuries are popping out which itself a sign that the body can't maintain the workload so as you said they need to find players who can be in line and when time comes they can just step up.

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In earlier times, team's yearly schedule used to be light and in those times they had plenty of time for recovery but that's not the case in modern time if you 3 format players and it's not restricted to just bowling your quota of overs but constant travelling throughout the year because nowadays schedule is jam packed, especially for team like India as their tours and matches bring money.

This is what they fail to consider when they compare eras. Rhythm is important for a seam bowler but they can't bowl 500 overs a year and still maintain full potential throughout the year when the fans are over 1.5 billions are counting on them, the pressure is even higher than ever before. Injuries are popping out which itself a sign that the body can't maintain the workload so as you said they need to find players who can be in line and when time comes they can just step up.

Combining all formats, league etc many do bowl around 450-500 overs every year while traveling throughout the year.

For example in 2024-25, Bumrah played 15 tests and bowled like more than 400 overs, highest among all seamers. It's just test, during same period we had wc, not even counting IPL, it's same with fair amount of key bowlers.

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Combining all formats, league etc many do bowl around 450-500 overs every year while traveling throughout the year.

For example in 2024-25, Bumrah played 15 tests and bowled like more than 400 overs, highest among all seamers. It's just test, during same period we had wc, not even counting IPL, it's same with fair amount of key bowlers.

If I am not wrong, DSP bowled the highest number of overs in the international format last year, not sure it is only in test or combining three formats but DSP is a workhorse and equally effective in certain condition but too much tossing around in different formats kind of messed up with the confidence of bowlers and we are shitting in every format except ODI, should find the track back or we might be humilated in oversees playing conditions in the upcoming world cup on both formats.

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^^ it must be test format and he's our proper workhorse after shami and do all the heavy lifting in absence of Bumrah. He did same in last England's tour and should've been the man of the series. From the both teams he was the only seamer to play all 5 matches. Pitches were absolute road and literally every seamer broke their back except him.